Emergence of rigidity at the structural glass transition: a first principle computation

Hajime Yoshino ¹, Marc Mezard ²

Physical Review Letters 105 (2010) 015504

We compute the shear modulus of structural glasses from a first principle approach based on the cloned liquid theory. We find that the intra-state shear-modulus, which corresponds to the plateau modulus measured in linear visco-elastic measurements, strongly depends on temperature and vanishes continuously when the temperature is increased beyond the glass temperature.

• 1. Department of Earth and Space Science,
  Osaka University
• 2. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques (LPTMS),
  CNRS : UMR8626 – Université Paris XI – Paris Sud